The Shoebill Stork, an African wetland bird, faces extinction due to habitat loss and hunting. Its survival depends on ...

One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of ...

A new study of ancient footprints is the first ever to show that our early ancestors coexisted in a shared space.

Human footprints stir the imagination. They invite you to follow, to guess what someone was doing and where they were going.

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...

Once Human continues to stand strong as the hottest new survival game on Steam right now. The free game continues trading places with Rust as the most-played option on the Valve store, and Once ...

Even now, this quiet, pastoral pocket of industrial western Germany seems an unlikely site to have changed our understanding of human evolution. Like England's Lake District and New York's Hudson ...

But in that short time, we’ve discovered about two dozen species of human ancestors in Europe, Africa, and Asia—which you can see mapped out in the infographic below. The first known fossils ...

Dated to around 4.4 million years old, the fossil was found alongside plant remains that suggested Ardi lived in a forest, a finding that discounted the “open savanna” theory of human evolution.